Advance File PhotoSTThe catering facility at the South Shore Golf Course has been closed since last August.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Vanderbilt at South Beach, the tony catering hall which has been a key part of the South Beach Boardwalk revival, has been selected by the city Parks Department to take over the troubled catering hall and restaurant at the South Shore Golf Course.

Parks spokesman Philip Abramson said The Vanderbilt was selected through the Request for Proposals (RFP) process to run the catering hall at the Huguenot country club. The hall has been shuttered since last August.

Abramson said that no agreement had been signed yet, and that details are still being negotiated.

He said that the length and financial terms of the lease, the date when The Vanderbilt will officially take over the catering hall, and when the facility will be reopened are among the details still being hashed out.

The corporate owners of The Vanderbilt and the adjoining South Fin Grill restaurant had no comment on being selected to run the country club catering hall, pointing out that negotiations were ongoing.

But Borough President James P. Molinaro, who has boosted The Vanderbilt and South Fin as part of his years-long South Beach renaissance, applauded the announcement.

"It's so much nicer to have someone there who has a track record," Molinaro said. "There's a real comfort zone with that. They are community people. They do a great job. It's not like it's a 7-Eleven coming in."

The country club catering hall, a familiar backdrop for wedding receptions and other festivities, was shuttered when Parks terminated its 15-year agreement with United Caterers in February 2011. The Queens company had failed to pay its rent or work out a fee schedule.

Parks issued an RFP last year for the operation of the two-story restaurant and catering facility that is housed inside a 19th-century Dutch Colonial revival building.

Also included in the RFP is the snack bar at the adjoining golf course.

Operations at the golf course and the pro shop had not been interrupted and were not part of the RFP.

The South Shore Golf Course got its start in 1930 as the private Mayflower Country Club. It became a Parks concession in 1984.